Krasovitsky, Alexander Vitalievich

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<br><br>Alexander Vitalievich Krasovitsky (born October 17, 1967 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR) – Ukrainian publisher, general director and main owner of the Kharkov publishing house „Folio”.<br><br>Graduated from the chemical faculty of Kharkov State University. In 1990 he founded and headed the Kharkiv publishing house „Folio”. In 2003-2004 and 2005-2007, he was appointed chairman of the board of the Kharkov Frunze Book Factory. In November 2004 – February 2007, he served as deputy chairman of the board of the state joint-stock company Ukrisdatpoligrafiya, which owns shares in 30 printing companies in Ukraine.<br><br>In 2003, „Folio” released 458 new titles with a total circulation of over 2.7 million copies. By 2004, the Folio publishing house had published more than 16 thousand titles of books, which are sold in Ukraine, Russia, and far abroad. In 2004 he took 86th place in the hundred most influential people in Ukraine according to the magazine „Correspondent”.<br><br>In 2016, Alexander Krasovitsky the complete ban on Russian books expressed by . that the Ukrainian book market has always been in the shadow of Russia, and now there is a chance to create their own market through a complete ban on Russian books, so that people are forced to buy Ukrainian books. Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute for Policy Analysis and Management, believes that behind Folio’s support for the ban on the import of books is „a banal struggle for the sales market, for ousting competitors from this market,” whose books (Russian) are more competitive.<br><br>Since September 2016, due to obscene communication between A. Krasovitsky and sellers, the chain of stores „Є” has ceased to work with him and his publishing house.<br>

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